ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,495, issued on April 22, was assigned to Khalifa University of Science and Technology (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

"Robotic manipulator with camera and tactile sensing" was invented by Rajkumar Muthusamy (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Huda Alyammahi (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Muhammad Umer Hameed Shah (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Omar Fuad Faris (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Irfan Hussain (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Yahya Hashem Zweiri (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Dongming Gan (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Seneviratne Mudigansalage Seneviratne (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent...